Shaw High School - Shuttle Yearbook (East Cleveland, OH)

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haw's Centennial hundred years have served to swell your fame, While farms and open fields were giving way Before a thriving cityg and the same Bright torch of learning still flames clear today That has brought so much glory to your name. Your loyal sons have held your banner high Upon the fields of sports and in the halls Of learningg some, not unremembered, lie Beyond the sea, who left your kindly walls And for their country bravely went to die. You are not cold, unfeeling, dead, but are In truth a living, understanding soul, VVl1ose fostering care, though we be scattered far, VVill bind our hearts into one loving wholeg For you will always shine our guiding star. Frank Daykin, '38

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HE institution which we today know as Shaw High School was established in the year 1838 as a boys' academy by the endow- ment of John Shaw, an Englishman, who with the help of five other men cleared away some of the woods of Cuyahoga County. In 1838, on two of the ninety acres specified by John Shaw, in his will, to be used for the advancement of education, the first building of the academy was constructed. This wooden, two-story building, a reproduction of which appears on the cover and main title-page of this book, was financed by subscriptions sccurcd at a mass meeting of the community and was constructed on Euclid Avenue, then known as Prospect Street. The first building of the academy was utterly ruined by the destructive activities of the older boys. Therefore, in 1850, with funds secured by interested citizens, a new brick building, a draw- ing of which appears on the opposite division page, was con- structed on the site occupied by the first building. Several years later, Shaw had deteriorated to a mere district school due to the severe contention and wrangling for the institution by two churches which differed on the slavery question.